Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (1963-) was an Egyptian member of al-Qaeda who was one of the masterminds of the 1998 US embassy bombings.

Biography
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was born in 1963 in Egypt to a family of Sunni Muslims, and he was one of the Islamists that fled Egypt during the government's war on jihadists. Abdullah headed to Somalia and Sudan in 1992 and helped Saif al-Adel in training al-Qaeda jihadists, and he helped to train Somalis to resist the United States during Operation Restore Hope from 1992 to 1993 and trained the Mujahideen to fight the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he helped Mohammed Odeh to acquire a passport so that he could conduct the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and he was wanted by the US government for these attacks. He later moved to southeastern Iran under the protection of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and he was later put under house arrest. A US interrogation of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith confirmed his location.